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Texas History Semester 1 Review 2015 (M)

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1. An increase in people living or working in the city is called
____urbanization__________________. P7
2. Where a place is in relation to other places is called _______________relative
location______ P9
3. _______Ogallala Aquifer____________ is the largest underground source of water in
Texas. P23
4. __Immigration___________________ is the movement of people from one country to
another. P31
5. Resources easily replaced by the Earths processes are called _renewable
resources__________ P36
6. There are _4___ regions that flow through Texas. P43
7. Areas with a common physical environment are called ____________natural
region_________ . P44
8. The region of Texas in which the largest Texas city is located is _______Gulf
Coastal Plains____. P46
8. The largest city in Texas is ___Houston______. P47
9. Region of Texas that includes our state capital is the _____Great Plains______ P. 54
10. The region of Texas in which we live (or Coble is located) ____ Central Plains____.
P52
11. Region of Texas that includes the Guadalupe Peak is the _Mountains and
Basins___ P. 57
12. The time before written records is called _____prehistory__ .P68
13.__Precontact__is the period of time before Europeans made contact in the
Americas. P70
14._Nomads______ are groups of people who move from place to place.P72
15.______Hernan Cortes___ conquered the Aztec in 1519. P92-93
16. __Alonso Alvarez de Pineda___ mapped the coast of Texas in 1519. P94
17__ Alvar Nnnez Cabeza de Vaca_ was an explorer that spent 8 years among the
Texas Indians. P95-97
18. The transfer of plants, animals, and disease between the Americas and other
continents is called
__Columbian Exchange___ . P105
19.__Missions___ were used as religious communities intended to change the
indians
ways of life. P112
20. The first Spanish mission in Texas was __Corpus Christi de la Isleta_____ P114
21. ___La Salla_ was a French explorer with claims on land in Texas. P115
22. San Antonio de Valero was founded in ________1718___ . P123
23. The Treaty of _______Paris___ required France and Spain to cede land to Great
Britain. P136

24. The United States doubled the size with the Louisiana Purchase in _____1803__.
P141
25. The __Adams -Onis____ treaty set the boundaries between Spain and the United
States. P142
26. The Texas Declaration of Independence was drafted by __George C.
Childress_____ . p142
27. ______Filibusters____ were military adventurers that attempted to free Mexico
and
Texas from Spain. P144
28. ______Jose Galvez Gutierrez de Lara____ founded the Republican Army of the
North to fight for
Mexican independence. P145
29. Mexico wins independence from ____Spain___ in 1821. P148
30. The process of moving from religious to civil control is called __secularization___
P151
31.___Mose Austin__ was the first person to get permission to settle U.S. families
in Texas. P160-162
32. _____Landtitles____ were documents that proved ownership of land. P164
33. _____Stephen F. Austin____ was an empresario who settled the first 297 families
in
Texas and was nicknamed the Father of Texas. P164
34. ______Cotton Gins_____ were devices that separated cotton fibers from the seed
and was a valuable machine in early Texas. P164
35.__Empresarios____ were businessmen who promoted settlement in Texas. P173
36. Free enterprise is an _______economic_____system in which businesses operate
with
minimal government control. P192
37. Since money was scarce in early Texas, most Texans had to _____barter____ to
obtain needed
items. P193
38. Items a country buys from other countries are called ________imports____ P193
39. Items a country sells to other countries are called _______exports____ . P193
40. Federalism is a principle of the constitution that distributes _ power_____
between a
central and regional government. P195
41. ____Fredonian Rebellion_____ was an early rebellion in Texas over land titles.
P203
42. The Law of ____April 6th, 1830_____ banned immigration from the U.S. to Texas.
P205
43. TheTurtle Bayou Resolutions_______ was a document declaring acts of rebellion
in Texas
were instead settlers defending their rights. P209
44. Changes in policy are called ________reforms____. P212
45. __Faction___ is another name for a group. P217
46. ____Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna________ was the president of Mexico in the
1830s. P226
47. ___Juan Sequin________ was a Tejano that supported Texas in their fight for
Independence and later buried all the defenders of the Alamo. P228

48. The ______Alamo____ was the site of a 13 day siege where Mexican army greatly
out numbered
the Texas army. P236-38
49. ____William B. Travis_____ was a defender of the Alamo who wrote a famous
letter
requesting help to All Americans. P237
50. _____San Jacinto____ was the final battle of the Texas Revolution. P250
51. Texas wins independence from Mexico in _______1836__ . P251
52. ___Sam Houston_____ was the commander of the Texas troops at the Battle of
San Jacinto